About this site

The Gens project is born by the initiative and the experience of a team of graduates in Humanities at the University of Genoa - Italy, who have specialized in history, demography, statistics, archive-keeping and librarianship.

Originally it was a research project about the distibution of surnames across Italy, but after the first realization and the first impact with the public, we decided to make it available to others.

The project is growing from a single-country web site (Italy) to a international network of sites. There is still lot of work to do, and if you are interested in this project, you can write us.

All the tecnical aspects of the project are carried out by Labo.